The Detection of Crime Department (DCB) of Ahmedabad Metropolis Police on Wednesday revealed that they have been investigating two circumstances of hoax bomb threats involving two separate Indigo Airways flights.
The DCB mentioned whereas one risk was issued on November 11 final 12 months, one other was issued on February 10, 2025.
Whereas India has seen a spate in circumstances of bombs threats to airways by way of emails all through 2024, the 2 circumstances are the one ones the place bodily notes have been discovered in numerous elements of the plane.
On February 10, the word was discovered through the submit de-boarding safety examine of Indigo flight 6E-76, which had landed at Terminal-2 of the SVP Worldwide Airport at 9:22 am from Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The word learn “Bomb is Right here”, and the message was scribbled on a bit of tissue wrapped in an arrival immigration type that was tucked within the facet panel of the window close to seat 18A.
Crime Department ACP Bharat Patel mentioned that within the earlier case, when an Indigo plane had taken off from Lucknow and landed at SVP Airport in Ahmedabad on November 11 final 12 months, no word was discovered. Nonetheless, when the flight was searched once more earlier than it might depart for Jeddah, the workers discovered a word simply above the commode in one of many bathrooms.
ACP Patel mentioned, “Whereas all the opposite bomb threats had been despatched by way of e-mail, these two have been the one situations the place these notes, scribbled on torn items of tissue and paper, have been positioned contained in the plane. We’re looking for out if the passengers, crew members or different staff might have positioned these notes there.”,
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